The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English Paperback – October 22, 2002

Fascinating addition to my Bible references

Arrived with no blemish

I think that this book is a great tool to help in unstoppable the passages! Good and useful!

Excellent! For the reader and believer who is pursuing the history of religion,

Okay. A bit confusing. Disappointed as I expected simple translations

Wish I would have got the hard back but the softie is just okay also! I’ve always wanted this book but it always slips my mind and I finally got it. I love comparing the text from this book to my original bible. I’m just glad I have a hold of this

Anyone who loves history, studies religion, or even christians should own a copy of this. Its the oldest versions of the stories in the Old Testament today. I love to compare it side by side with my New Jerusalem study bible. Truly a cool piece of history to own although its not 100% complete in its translation which is basically impossible to do.

Picture to the left is the First Edition Hardcover and the left is the paperback edition. While the quality of the printing paper isn't the greatest the material printed on the pages more than makes up for it. If you ever wanted to read the Holy Bible as it existed when Jesus Christ walked the earth this is the book to get. I have to give the writers/translators credit that they only included passages included in the fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls with missing wor[ds] or fragments of [words] appearing in brackets. This book also gives rabbinic jewish & protestant theology a black eye with the books of Tobit, Ben Sira (aka Wisdom of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus) and the Epistle of Jeremiah (Chapter 6 of Baruch in Catholic Bibles) being found in the collection of Biblical Scrolls as well as the books of 1 Enoch and Jubilees which were only recognized as scripture by the Qumran community commonly referred to as Essenes. More often than not the fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls agree with the Greek Septuagint (LXX) translation and the Samaritan Pentateuch as opposed to the modern Hebrew Masoretic Text which is only dated to 1100 AD. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible preserves the word of YHWH in it's original format.If anyone is looking for the non-biblical scrolls found at Qumran check out The Dead Sea Scrolls by Michael Wise, Martin Abegg Jr & Edward Cook.